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Chapter 10: How to keep children healthy
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HealthWiki > Helping Children Live with HIV > Chapter 10: How to keep children healthy
In this chapter:
The most important ways to keep all children healthy are to give them lots of love, nutritious food, and safe water to drink, along with taking care to prevent childhood illnesses. Children with HIV need extra attention to these same things, plus ART to treat their HIV. This is because their ability to fight illness is weakened by HIV.
To help children avoid illness, especially children with HIV:
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This page was updated:27 Nov 2019